Publisher description for "Peripheral" labour? : studies in the history of partial proletarianization / edited by Shahid Amin and Marcel van der Linden.
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This volume takes a fresh look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed producers. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history, the volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Working class Developing countries History, Marginality, Social Developing countries History, Proletariat History, Liberty History